Installing Shower Door Without Stud

If you re drilling into ceramic tile use a carbide tipped masonry drill bit.

Installing shower door without stud.

Close the door and mark the wall along the jamb. Before you put the door on simply screw the hinges themselves into the anchors. They got tired of the mess. The glass is really heavy.

They had a shower installed a few months ago in their basement but were using a curtain. Fit the panel into the base track. Neighbor asked if i could help install a shower door. Remove the wall jamb and drill the holes for the mounting screws or wall anchors.

The concern is i won t really be installing this door into studs. The vertical bar will be in studs but most of the weight is in two collars that site on top and protrude about 1 5 inches from the vertical bar. Repeat the drilling in the opposite wall for the other wall jamb. Take careful measurements dry fit your shower surround to ensure.

Installing a glass shower door is a process that requires a lot of patience. There are studs about 5 into the stall but nothing along the front edge. Anyway i couldn t for the life of me find studs behind the shower stall front walls. Pull on them a bit to apply the same amount of pressure that the door will when it is installed.

They will sit next to the stud but not be on it. To install a glass side panel slip the remaining jamb onto one of the panel s edges and the magnetic strike rail onto the other. I assume i need a stud on at least one side of the door to screw the frame into. We show you here how to carefully install the fragile glass on tile without a hu.

Remove the jamb and the magnetic rail from the panel and attach the jamb. Those collars have two anchor screws. They may have something that will work. The shower is a one piece fiberglass pre fab shower.

Install wall anchors according to instructions where there is no stud available. Finally add a shower curtain or install shower doors to complete the enclosure. Framless shower door with no studs you might want to check with a local shop that specializes in glass and custom shower doors and see what they recommend for fasteners. Through the shower into the wall into a stud my problem is that i checked both walls and found out that the studs aren t lined up on both sides.